{"product_id":"tender-maps-9781914613326","title":"Tender Maps","description":"\u003cp\u003e  • Publisher: September Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: September Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays \u0026amp; Travelogues\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Of\u003cbr\u003eall the places where I feel the translucency of things, places that are thin\u003cbr\u003efor me, bluebell woods are first among them.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, or to see a\u003cbr\u003ecity's sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel in\u003cbr\u003esearch of a particular scene, feeling or atmosphere, often inspired by music, \u003cbr\u003eliterature and art. Taking us deep into our emotional and creative responses to\u003cbr\u003eplace, this extraordinary book explores the author's relentless travelling, from\u003cbr\u003ethe heat of Sicily to the mountains of Japan. With her uniquely lyrical\u003cbr\u003eapproach to psycho-geography, Maddicott explores the relationship with\u003cbr\u003elandscape that is the very essence of human creativity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom seventeenth-century salons of Paris to the underground culture and\u003cbr\u003ecrumbling balconies of modern Tbilisi, through writers as diverse as Italo\u003cbr\u003eCalvino and L. M. Montgomery and artists like Ana Mendieta and\u003cbr\u003eeighteenth-century girls embroidering their lives, \u003ci\u003eTender Maps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis\u003cbr\u003ea beautifully evocative book of travel, \u003cbr\u003eculture and imagination that transports readers in time and place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A rich and beguiling work of literary travel memoir that nimbly tracks the wider contours of the world\u003cbr\u003ein terms of feeling, memory, introspection and the imagination.' - Travis Elborough, \u003cbr\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Vanishing Places\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"September Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45152856932503,"sku":"9781914613326","price":1756.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781914613326.webp?v=1767660835","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/tender-maps-9781914613326","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}